Denmark at the 2018 Winter Olympics

Denmark at the 2018 Winter Olympics
Flag of Denmark
IOC code	DEN
NOC	National Olympic Committee and Sports Confederation of Denmark
Website	www.dif.dk/en
in Pyeongchang, South Korea 9–25 February 2018
Competitors	17 (10 men and 7 women) in 5 sports
Flag bearer (opening)	Elena Møller Rigas[1]
Flag bearer (closing)	Viktor Hald Thorup
Medals	Gold 0 Silver 0 Bronze 0 Total 0
Winter Olympics appearances (overview)
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The Kingdom of Denmark is a sovereign state comprising three constituent countries: Denmark, Greenland and the Faroe Islands that competed at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, from 9 to 25 February 2018, with 17 competitors in 5 sports. On 9 January 2018, speed skater Elena Møller Rigas was named as the country's flagbearer during the opening ceremony.^[2]

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors participating at the Games per sport/discipline.

Sport	Men	Women	Total
Alpine skiing	2	0	2
Cross-country skiing	1	0	1
Curling	5	5	10
Freestyle skiing	0	1	1
Speed skating	2	1	3
Total	10	7	17

Alpine skiing

Main articles: Alpine skiing at the 2018 Winter Olympics and Alpine skiing at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Qualification

Denmark qualified one athlete,^[3] and received one additional quota place.

Athlete	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Christoffer Faarup	Men's combined	1:21.08	20	54.13	34	2:15.21	30
	Men's downhill	—				1:44.48	36
	Men's super-G	—				1:27.81	32
Casper Dyrbye Næsted	Men's giant slalom	1:20.33	69	1:18.01	56	2:38.34	60
	Men's slalom	DNF

Cross-country skiing

Main articles: Cross-country skiing at the 2018 Winter Olympics and Cross-country skiing at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Qualification

Denmark qualified one male athlete.^[4]

Distance

Athlete	Event	Final
		Time	Deficit	Rank
Martin Møller	Men's 15 km freestyle	39:35.4	+5:51.5	90
	Men's 50 km classical	2:36:10.8	+27:48.7	60

Curling

Main articles: Curling at the 2018 Winter Olympics and Curling at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Qualification

Denmark qualified both a men's and a women's team by qualifying via the qualification event in Plzeň, Czech Republic.^[5][6]

Summary

Team	Event	Group stage										Tiebreaker	Semifinal	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Rasmus Stjerne Johnny Frederiksen Mikkel Poulsen Oliver Dupont Morten Thomsen	Men's tournament	SWE L 5–9	SUI L 7–9	ITA W 6–4	USA L 5–9	NOR L 8–10	KOR W 9–8	GBR L 6–7	JPN L 4–6	CAN L 3–8	10	Did not advance
Madeleine Dupont Denise Dupont Julie Høgh Mathilde Halse Lina Knudsen	Women's tournament	SWE L 3–9	JPN L 5–8	CAN W 9–8	GBR L 6–7	CHN L 7–10	USA L 6–7	OAR L 7–8	SUI L 4–6	KOR L 3–9	10	Did not advance

Men's tournament

Main article: Curling at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Men's tournament

Final round robin standings

Team v t e	Skip	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	EW	EL	BE	SE	S%	Qualification
Sweden	Niklas Edin	9	7	2	62	43	34	28	13	8	87%	Playoffs
Canada	Kevin Koe	9	6	3	56	46	36	34	14	8	87%
United States	John Shuster	9	5	4	67	63	37	39	4	6	80%
Great Britain	Kyle Smith	9	5	4	55	60	40	37	8	7	82%	Tiebreaker
Switzerland	Peter de Cruz	9	5	4	60	55	39	37	10	6	83%
Norway	Thomas Ulsrud	9	4	5	52	56	34	39	7	8	82%
South Korea	Kim Chang-min	9	4	5	65	63	39	39	8	8	82%
Japan	Yusuke Morozumi	9	4	5	48	56	33	35	13	5	81%
Italy	Joël Retornaz	9	3	6	50	56	37	38	15	7	81%
Denmark	Rasmus Stjerne	9	2	7	53	70	36	39	12	5	83%

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Round-robin

Denmark has a bye in draws 2, 6 and 10.

Draw 1

Wednesday, 14 February, 09:05

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Denmark (Stjerne)	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	0	2	0	5
Sweden (Edin)	0	2	0	0	3	2	0	1	0	1	9

Draw 3

Thursday, 15 February, 14:05

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Denmark (Stjerne)	0	0	2	0	1	1	0	2	0	1	7
Switzerland (de Cruz)	1	1	0	3	0	0	2	0	2	0	9

Draw 4

Friday, 16 February, 09:05

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Italy (Retornaz)	0	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	4
Denmark (Stjerne)	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	6

Draw 5

Friday, 16 February, 20:05

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Denmark (Stjerne)	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	2	0	X	5
United States (Shuster)	2	2	0	2	0	0	2	0	1	X	9

Draw 7

Sunday, 18 February, 09:05

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Norway (Ulsrud)	0	1	0	4	0	4	0	0	1	0	10
Denmark (Stjerne)	1	0	1	0	1	0	2	2	0	1	8

Draw 8

Sunday, 18 February, 20:05

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Final
Denmark (Stjerne)	0	0	2	1	2	0	0	3	0	0	1	9
South Korea (Kim)	2	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	1	2	0	8

Draw 9

Monday, 19 February, 14:05

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Great Britain (Smith)	0	1	0	1	0	2	0	1	0	2	7
Denmark (Stjerne)	1	0	1	0	2	0	1	0	1	0	6

Draw 11

Tuesday, 20 February, 20:05

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Japan (Morozumi)	0	0	3	0	0	2	0	0	0	1	6
Denmark (Stjerne)	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	4

Draw 12

Wednesday, 21 February, 14:05

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Denmark (Stjerne)	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	X	X	X	3
Canada (Koe)	4	0	1	0	3	0	0	X	X	X	8

Women's tournament

Main article: Curling at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Women's tournament

Final round robin standings

Team v t e	Skip	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	EW	EL	BE	SE	S%	Qualification
South Korea	Kim Eun-jung	9	8	1	75	44	41	34	5	15	79%	Playoffs
Sweden	Anna Hasselborg	9	7	2	64	48	42	34	14	13	83%
Great Britain	Eve Muirhead	9	6	3	61	56	39	38	12	6	79%
Japan	Satsuki Fujisawa	9	5	4	59	55	38	36	10	13	75%
China	Wang Bingyu	9	4	5	57	65	35	38	12	5	78%
Canada	Rachel Homan	9	4	5	68	59	40	36	10	12	81%
Switzerland	Silvana Tirinzoni	9	4	5	60	55	34	37	12	7	78%
United States	Nina Roth	9	4	5	56	65	38	39	7	6	78%
Olympic Athletes from Russia	Victoria Moiseeva	9	2	7	45	76	34	40	8	6	76%
Denmark	Madeleine Dupont	9	1	8	50	72	32	41	10	6	73%

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Round-robin

Denmark has a bye in draws 3, 7 and 10.

Draw 1

Wednesday, 14 February, 14:05

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Denmark (Dupont)	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	0	X	X	3
Sweden (Hasselborg)	1	0	2	0	2	2	0	2	X	X	9

Draw 2

Thursday, 15 February, 09:05

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Denmark (Dupont)	0	0	0	3	0	1	0	0	1	X	5
Japan (Fujisawa)	0	2	1	0	0	0	3	2	0	X	8

Draw 4

Friday, 16 February, 14:05

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Final
Denmark (Dupont)	0	0	3	1	0	2	0	0	0	2	1	9
Canada (Homan)	0	2	0	0	4	0	1	1	0	0	0	8

Draw 5

Saturday, 17 February, 09:05

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Denmark (Dupont)	1	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	1	1	6
Great Britain (Muirhead)	0	2	0	1	0	2	0	2	0	0	7

Draw 6

Saturday, 17 February, 20:05

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
China (Wang)	4	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	4	X	10
Denmark (Dupont)	0	1	3	0	2	0	0	1	0	X	7

Draw 8

Monday, 19 February, 09:05

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
United States (Roth)	1	0	1	1	0	2	0	1	0	1	7
Denmark (Dupont)	0	1	0	0	2	0	2	0	1	0	6

Draw 9

Monday, 19 February, 20:05

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Denmark (Dupont)	0	0	0	2	0	2	0	0	3	0	7
Olympic Athletes from Russia (Moiseeva)	0	1	1	0	3	0	1	1	0	1	8

Draw 11

Wednesday, 21 February, 09:05

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Switzerland (Tirinzoni)	1	0	0	0	3	0	1	0	1	X	6
Denmark (Dupont)	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	1	0	X	4

Draw 12

Wednesday, 21 February, 20:05

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
South Korea (Kim)	0	1	0	3	2	0	3	X	X	X	9
Denmark (Dupont)	0	0	2	0	0	1	0	X	X	X	3

Freestyle skiing

Main articles: Freestyle skiing at the 2018 Winter Olympics and Freestyle skiing at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Qualification

Denmark has qualified one athlete in Freestyle Skiing.

Halfpipe

Athlete	Event	Qualification				Final
		Run 1	Run 2	Best	Rank	Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Best	Rank
Laila Friis-Salling	Women's halfpipe	45.00	11.80	45.00	23	Did not advance

Speed skating

Main articles: Speed skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics and Speed skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Qualification

Denmark earned the following quotas at the conclusion of the four World Cups used for qualification.^[7] The Danish speed skating team consists of two male and one female athlete.^[8]

Mass start

Athlete	Event	Semifinal			Final
		Points	Time	Rank	Points	Time	Rank
Stefan Due Schmidt	Men's mass start	40	7:55.22	2 Q	0	7:47.53	13
Viktor Hald Thorup		5	8:34.06	4 Q	8	7:57.10	5
Elena Møller Rigas	Women's mass start	0	8:54.39	9	Did not advance

Non-competing sports

Figure skating

Main articles: Figure skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics and Figure skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Qualification

Denmark qualified an ice dancing pair, based on its placement at the 2017 World Figure Skating Championships in Helsinki, Finland.^[9] However they relinquished their allocation because Laurence Fournier Beaudry was unable to obtain clearance to participate for Denmark, because he is Canadian, not Danish.

References

1. "Opening Ceremony Flagbearers - Olympic Winter Games, PyeongChang 2018" (PDF). olympic.org. International Olympic Committee (IOC). 9 February 2018. Retrieved 10 February 2018.
2. Wenande, Christian (10 January 2018). "Sports News in Brief: Danes a smash hit with UK footy fans". The Copenhagen Post. Copenhagen, Denmark. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
3. "Alpine Skiing Quota List for Olympic Games 2018". www.data.fis-ski.com/. International Ski Federation (FIS). 22 January 2018. Archived from the original on 9 February 2018. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
4. "Cross-country Skiing Quota List for Olympic Games 2018". www.data.fis-ski.com/. International Ski Federation (FIS). 12 December 2017. Archived from the original on 22 December 2017. Retrieved 16 December 2017.
5. "Denmark men are final curling team into 2018 Olympic Winter Games". www.worldcurling.org/. World Curling Federation. 10 December 2017. Archived from the original on 10 December 2017. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
6. "Final four curling teams qualify for 2018 Olympics". Associated Press. New York City, New York, USA. 11 December 2017. Archived from the original on 27 December 2017. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
7. "Communication No. 2136: XXIII Olympic Winter Games 2018 PyeongChang Entries Speed Skating". www.isu.org/. International Skating Union (ISU). 20 December 2017. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
8. Jennings, Simon (15 January 2018). "Danish inliners take budget route to Winter Olympics". Reuters. London, United Kingdom. Retrieved 20 January 2018.
9. "Figure Skating Quota places for the XXIII Olympic Winter Games 2018". www.isu.org/. International Skating Union. 4 April 2017. Retrieved 28 July 2017.